Wednesday, 23 November 2016

GERSHON YABROV

GERSHON
YABROV (1896-1941)

He came from a town near Minsk,
Byelorussia. For many years he was a
teacher and cofounder of Jewish schools and technical institutes in Minsk and
in other cities in Byelorussia. Over the
years 1928-1933, he was a lecturer in the pedagogical technical school in
Vinitse (Vinnytsa), later returning to Minsk where he lived
until the German invasion of Russia in June 1941. He was the author of textbooks and readers
which were used in Jewish schools and technical institutes in Soviet Russia. He
published the first textbooks of Yiddish grammar and literature for the Jewish
schools. He published articles on
pedagogical and literary topics in: Sovetishe
literatur (Soviet literature) in Kiev; and Oktyabr (October) and Shtern
(Star) in Minsk. He was a regular contributor
to Tsaytshrift (Periodical) in Minsk
where, among other items, he published: “Tsu der evalutsye fun izi khariks
poezye” (On the evolution of Izi Kharik’s poetry). In book form: Praktishe gramatik (Practical grammar), vol. 1 (Minsk, 1925), 74
pp., second enlarged edition (1926), 90 pp., third edition (1927), 81 pp.,
fourth edition (1928), 102 pp.; Literarishe
khrestomatye, mit eynike elementn fun literatur-teorye (Literary reader,
with a number of elements of literary theory), two parts (Minsk, 1926 and
1927), 276 pp. and 388 pp., respectively, second enlarged edition (Minsk,
1928), 397 pp., third edition (1929); Di
yidishe literatur in frages, oyfgabes un temes, a hilfsbukh far di eltere grupn
fun tsveytn kontsenter, far lerer, studentn fun pedtekhnikums un far shuln fun
hekhern tip (Yiddish literature in questions, editions, and themes: A
auxiliary volume for older groups in the second stage of education, for
teachers, students of pedagogical technical schools and for schools of the high
sort), two parts (Minsk, 1928 and 1929), 44 pp. and 44 pp., respectively; Y. l. perets far der shul, eynike metodishe
onvayzungen un deklerungen (Y. L. Perets for the school, some methodical
instructions and explanations), with an introduction, short biography, and
characterization of Perets and his work (Minsk, 10941), 42 pp.; Lernbukh af literatur, farn 3tn lernyor
(Textbook for literatur, for the third school year), with L. Goldin
(Kharkov-Kiev, 1932), 98 pp., with illustration; In ongrif, lernbukh fun daytsh far der 6ter grupe fun der politekhnisher
shul (On the attack, textbook for German for the sixth group in the
politechnical school), with N. Goldberg, two parts (Kharkov-Kiev, 1932 and
1933), 99 pp. and 80 pp., respectively. Since
WWII there has been no further information about him.